Determinants of internal and international migration from rural areas of Mexico.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

García España, Juan Felipe.

Contributor:

University of Pennsylvania.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Demography.

0938.

Local Subjects:

0938.

Physical Description:

171 pages

Contained In:

Dissertation Abstracts International 53-05A.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Summary:

This dissertation examines the determinants of internal and international migration from rural areas of Mexico. The research analyzes a national representative survey of more than 400 rural Mexican communities and an Ethnosurvey of two communities located in Western Mexico, the main source of international migrants. A contextual model incorporating variables at the individual, household, and community levels is implemented. Internal migration from rural areas of Mexico is still more prevalent than international moves. Network connections, the webs that link potential migrants in sending communities to people in receiving society, are the most important determinant of both internal and, especially, international migration. Maturation of networks brings an institutionalization of the migration process. Once high levels of migration to the United States from a community are established other factors become less important in determining migration. Factors operating at the household level tend to be more important when migration to the United States is relatively low than when it is high. Household dependency is a significant predictor of internal but not of international migration.

Notes:

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-05, Section: A, page: 1679.

Supervisor: Douglas S. Massey.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 1992.

Local Notes:

School code: 0175.

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